Social program cuts tuberculosis cases among Brazil’s poorest by more than half

Brazil’s Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world’s largest conditional cash transfer programs, was responsible for the reduction of more than half the number of tuberculosis cases and deaths among those living in extreme poverty and Indigenous groups, shows a large study coordinated by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The findings, published in Nature Medicine, have strong implications for public policies on social protection and TB control worldwide.